Peloton slapped with a $150 million lawsuit for playing unlicensed music
Music publishers are suing Peloton, the maker of the connected exercise bike, for failing to license songs it plays in its streaming spinning classes. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday by the National Music Publishers Association in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York...
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It's funny the first time I seen the commercial with Jay-z's On To The Next One I thought to myself I wonder how much they paid to license that. The answer is probably not much.
Reading between the lines it seems as if this has been a problem for a while. They just waited until the company got big enough to sue big.
